linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-68798: perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF

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Message-ID: <2026011307-CVE-2025-68798-ea9c@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:29:24 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68798: perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF

On AMD machines cpuc->events[idx] can become NULL in a subtle race
condition with NMI->throttle->x86_pmu_stop().

Check event for NULL in amd_pmu_enable_all() before enable to avoid a GPF.
This appears to be an AMD only issue.

Syzkaller reported a GPF in amd_pmu_enable_all.

INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 13.143
    msecs
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
    0xdffffc0000000034: 0000  PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001a0-0x00000000000001a7]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 328415 Comm: repro_36674776 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzk
RIP: 0010:x86_pmu_enable_event (arch/x86/events/perf_event.h:1195
    arch/x86/events/core.c:1430)
RSP: 0018:ffff888118009d60 EFLAGS: 00010012
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001a0
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff88811802a440 R14: ffff88811802a240 R15: ffff8881132d8601
FS:  00007f097dfaa700(0000) GS:ffff888118000000(0000) GS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000200001c0 CR3: 0000000103d56000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
amd_pmu_enable_all (arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:760 (discriminator 2))
x86_pmu_enable (arch/x86/events/core.c:1360)
event_sched_out (kernel/events/core.c:1191 kernel/events/core.c:1186
    kernel/events/core.c:2346)
__perf_remove_from_context (kernel/events/core.c:2435)
event_function (kernel/events/core.c:259)
remote_function (kernel/events/core.c:92 (discriminator 1)
    kernel/events/core.c:72 (discriminator 1))
__flush_smp_call_function_queue (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27
    ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/csd.h:64
    kernel/smp.c:135 kernel/smp.c:540)
__sysvec_call_function_single (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27
    ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207
    ./arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:99 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:272)
sysvec_call_function_single (arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47)
    arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47))
 </IRQ>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68798 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 6.1.160 with commit 49324a0c40f7e9bae1bd0362d23fc42232e14621
	Fixed in 6.6.120 with commit 6e41d9ec8d7cc3f01b9ba785e05f0ebef8b3b37f
	Fixed in 6.12.64 with commit e1028fb38b328084bc683a4efb001c95d3108573
	Fixed in 6.18.3 with commit 43c2e5c2acaae50e99d1c20a5a46e367c442fb3b
	Fixed in 6.19-rc1 with commit 866cf36bfee4fba6a492d2dcc5133f857e3446b0

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-68798
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/x86/events/amd/core.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49324a0c40f7e9bae1bd0362d23fc42232e14621
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e41d9ec8d7cc3f01b9ba785e05f0ebef8b3b37f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1028fb38b328084bc683a4efb001c95d3108573
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43c2e5c2acaae50e99d1c20a5a46e367c442fb3b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/866cf36bfee4fba6a492d2dcc5133f857e3446b0